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Re: [CQ-Contest] LOTW question

To: cq-contest@contesting.com, "Dallas and Lucy" <ludal@dmv.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] LOTW question
From: R Johnson <k1vu@tmlp.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 14:10:00 -0500
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Simple solution (time wise) is to mail the CD to the LOTW people.
I believe that this was one of the options of submission.

73 es GL
Bob, K1VU

At 08:59 1/1/2004 , you wrote:
>I spent 10 hours on the last day of 2003 preping and sending my logs to
>LoTW.
>They included all my QSOs from 99 to present.  1st step was conversion from
>DX4WIN to ADIF.  Then I transferred to a machine with a CD burner as the
>file
>was 22Meg.  Burnt CD and brought to my internet machine at the house.
>Signed
>the log and converted to .tq8.  This process alone took 4 hours.  Attached
>to an
>email to lotw and started sending.  My dialup was running at 21.6 yesterday
>and
>the file took almost 4 hours to send.
>
>Then comes a message that the file size exceeds the server limit for
>attachments!
>I am not a happy camper at this point.  Anyone have any thoughts as to what
>typical
>attachment size limitations are with typical servers?  I can go back and
>split the logs
>by year, but want to make sure I don't spend another long day only to find I
>am still
>over the limit.  I know I should check with my ISP, but there is no one home
>today.
>Just wanted to get some ideas.
>Thanks and Happy New Year.
>Dallas  W3PP
>
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